Question

I’ve a asp.net mvc 3 site and i publish it in iis 7.5 (framework 4.0), and the problem is that the css and the scripts don’t work util the user log in the website. So:

• The website was created like virtual directory and converted into a application.
• The mode is forms authentication.
• I enable in the iis the forms and anonymous authentication.

The web config has:

<location path="Content" allowOverride="true">
    <system.web>
        <authorization>
            <allow users="*" />
        </authorization>
    </system.web>
</location>
<location path="Scripts" allowOverride="true">
    <system.web>
        <authorization>
            <allow users="*" />
        </authorization>
        <globalization culture="pt-BR" uiCulture="pt-BR" />
    </system.web>
</location>

<authorization>
    <deny users="?"/>
</authorization>

Obs: the dlls that i add in bin directory: System.Web.Helpers.dll, System.Web.Mvc.dll, System.Web.Routing.dll, System.Web.WebPages.dll.

I tried to change the path in the localtion as “~/Content”, but i got the same result.

I tried to put the tag allow in the autorization tag as:

<authorization>
    <deny users="?"/>
    <allow users="*"/>
</authorization>

But i got the same result.

What am i missing?

Answer 1

I figured it out. It was something I missed from my checklist when setting up a new IIS application: Select the application, double-click “Authentication”, select “Anonymous Authentication”, then Edit, and change it to use the Application Pool Identity. Make sure that user has permissions on the folder that contains the site like the others said.